A discussion of the Arab Awakening with Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, UAE-based columnist; Rami George Khouri, Director, Issam Fares Institute, American University of Beirut; Dr. Karim Makdisi, Associate Professor, American University of Beirut; Diana Buttu, Joint Fellow with the Middle East Initiative and Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program. Moderated by Professor Nicholas Burns. Read more »
Archives for September 2011
Tweeting the Arab Revolution
A conversation with Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Read more »
Viewpoint with James Zogby
Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Columnist and Social Media Commentator, discusses the effect social media is having on societies in the Middle East and throughout the world. Read more »
After 9/11: a painful lesson
Osama bin Laden himself died at the hands of an elite US force in May 2011. But in a deeper way, the blow had already been inflicted by the inspiring protesters of Avenue Bourguiba in Tunis, Tahrir Square in Cairo, Taghyeer Square in Sana’a, and elsewhere in the Arab world in 2010-11. Not one of the brave Arabs who rallied against the status quo in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Syria, Libya and elsewhere sought a replacement inspired by the likes of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. Their dignified and almost wholly non-violent struggle has at last brought hope of ending that self-sustaining cycle. Read more »